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NCCER
National Center for Construction Education and Research; craft curricula and credentials issued through accredited training sponsors.
Official website ↗NCCER Power Line Worker (Level 1, then Distribution, Transmission or Substation)NCCERLevel 1 gives you about 322 hours of lineworker fundamentals, from safety and electrical theory to climbing wooden poles and other structures, aerial framing, rigging and setting poles, before you move into a distribution, transmission or substation track.CertificationVariesNCCER Heavy Equipment Operations (Levels 1 to 3) CredentialsNCCERAcross three levels you learn equipment safety, inspection and earthmoving basics, then read civil drawings, work with soils and grades, and run machines from skid steers and backhoes to dozers, excavators, scrapers, dump trucks and motor graders.CertificationVaries530 hrs